Word: leake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That has not been the only change. "Hey," shouted Political Tactician Lyn Nofziger at Regan the other night, "you've been in the White House five weeks now and there has not been a single leak. I can't stand it much longer." Regan holds the press at arm's distance, centralizes paper flow, assigns staff authority meticulously--and thus could spot any big leaker. Benign terror reigns in the back corridors. Information is sorted, compressed, confined. "I'm the small end of the funnel," Regan explains pointedly. The policy struggle around the President has been diminished. Regan...
...carrying Hitler's personal effects crashed near Dresden in the last days of World War II. Although the flamboyant Heidemann was known to be excessively preoccupied with Nazi memorabilia, his superior, Thomas Walde, took Heidemann's supposed find very seriously. Presumably in order to minimize the risk of a leak, Walde bypassed Stern's top editors and took the information upstairs to Wilfried Sorge, assistant director of Gruner & Jahr, and Jan Hensmann, a member of the board. In the months that followed, the small group privy to the secret gathered for "reading hours" as each shipment of the black, imitation...
...exchanged in the corridors, and executives casually walked around the firm's suburban grounds. Although profits last year were just $323 million on sales of $9.5 billion, below those of the chemical-industry giants, company executives gave the impression that things would soon get better. But since the gas leak on Dec. 3 in Bhopal, India, that left at least 1,400 people dead and perhaps 170,000 more injured, the mood in Danbury has changed dramatically. No one, from Chairman Warren Anderson on down, expects Union Carbide to collapse as a result of the Bhopal disaster, but all acknowledge...
Plant safety procedures were inadequate to deal with a large-scale leak of the deadly methyl isocyanate, or MIC, despite the fact that the dangers such a leak would pose were known. Nor had any precautions been taken to protect people living near the plant site. Although a safety survey conducted by experts from Union Carbide headquarters in 1982 identified major hazards that could lead to serious incidents, no procedures were developed for alerting or evacuating the population that would be affected by an accident...
Plant workers failed to grasp the gravity of the situation as it developed, allowing the leak to go unattended for about an hour. Brief and frantic efforts to check the leak failed. As the situation deteriorated, the workers panicked and fled the plant...